POLANb: Surplus Heroes

General Wladyslaw Anders, commanding the
Polish Army in Italy, flew to London from his headquarters last week.
He was turned away from the Savoy by a clerk who had never heard of him,
finally found a room elsewhere. Two days later he sat grimly listening
to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin explain that the Anders army must be
disbanded at once.

Bevin was blunt: the Polish heroes of Cassino and a hundred other
battlefields had become a political embarrassment.
The Russians were thundering that they constituted a British-sponsored
threat to the...